Meade LX90-ACF 8" f/10 - No Tripod

This product is the Meade Advanced Coma Free Telescope - UHTC, but it does NOT include any tripod. NOTE: The photos show the scope on a tripod for illustration purposes only. Your product will NOT include a tripod.

The Meade Advanced Coma-Free (ACF) optical design offers the coma-free pinpoint star images and flatter image fields greatly desired by discerning amateur astronomers, astrophotographers and professional observatories alike. This system also reduces the astigmatism and eliminates the diffraction spikes found in classical Ritchey-Chretien designs. No competing Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope can make those claims.

The Meade LX90-ACF 8" features the solid and stable LX90 aluminum double fork mount, with fast slew speed adjustable from 1 to 7 degrees per second. Fine slewing and photographic guiding speeds can be adjusted from .01x to 1x sidereal in one one-hundredth increments. The Meade Telescope mount and all electronics are internally powered by 8 (user supplied) C-cell batteries which will typically operate the telescope for a generous 60 hours (optional Meade Universal AC adapter also available). The mount also has mechanical locks in both axis allowing adjustment even without power.

Meade LX90-ACF 8" f/10 with Standard Field Tripod Features...

The LX90 can locate over 30,000 objects including itself. Turn it on and the built-in GPS receiver immediately determines your precise date, time, and location. In just minutes, your scope is ready to give you a tour of the most spectacular sights in the universe with GPS precision.

GPS Receiver - LX90 can do more than track satellites. It talks to them as well. Turn it on and the built-in Sony GPS sensor immediately determines your precise date, time and location. AutoAlign then uses this info to align your scope for a tour of the most spectacular sights in the universe.

Easy Align - LX90s are smart scopes that know the night sky right out of the box. Easy Align picks two alignment stars for you and places them right in your viewfinder. Just center them to fine tune your alignment and the wonders of the universe are at your fingertips.

Oversized Primary Mirror - Only Meade manufactures their primary mirrors in diameters larger than their listed aperture (e.g. the diameter of the 8" LX90'''s primary mirror is actually 8.25").This additional 1/4" yields a wider, fully illuminated field-of-view, and allows you to see the light other telescopes leave behind.

Slew Speed - The LX90 slews (moves) from star to star at 7 degrees per second. That is more than twice as fast as the competition. This means that over the course of an evening, a Meade LX90 will show you two to three times more objects.

AudioStar Computer Controller - The AudioStar computer controller with speaker helps you quickly find and GoTo over 30,000 objects in the night sky. View planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, comets and more-all at the push of a button. Don''t know what you want to view this evening? Then go to the Tonight''s Best tour in your AudioStar. It automatically selects the best objects in the sky for that particular time and location.

Latest Submitted Astrophotos!

I love Algonquin Park, I'''ve been going there since I was a kid. (Located in Northern Ontario, Canada) Here are some shot'''s of I have taken recently. All the planets shot'''s were taken with a ToUcam pro and my LX-200GPS. The lunar shot was taken with my Nikon 995 and that Celestron comet catcher I picked up...

This is actually a snapshot from actual footage I took of the planet Neptune. The image has been brightened so everyone is able to see it better as we all know how far Neptune is from the Sun and how dim it is!
Date: 3 August 2013